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Judges 9:56
“Thus God requited the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to his father, in killing his seventy brothers;”
Verse in context — Judges 9
54
Then he called hastily to the young man his armor bearer, and said to him, "Draw your sword, and kill me, that men not say of me, 'A woman killed him.' His young man thrust him through, and he died.
55
When the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed every man to his place.
56
Thus God requited the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to his father, in killing his seventy brothers;
57
and all the wickedness of the men of Shechem did God requite on their heads: and on them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal.
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